Blok et al. conclude “These results suggest that the expected expansion of deciduous shrubs in the Arctic region, triggered by climate warming, may reduce summer permafrost thaw. Increased shrub growth may thus partially offset further permafrost degradation by future temperature increases. Permafrost models need to include a dynamic vegetation component to accurately predict future permafrost thaw.” Enough said! WRH permalink

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 Infowars.com | Press Conference & Seminar covering the unreported evidence at the World Trade Center.

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Chuck Baldwin | McCain has introduced two bills in the US Senate that are about as Machiavellian as they could be.

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John McCain’s Attack On Liberty

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Monday it was looking into “serious allegations” about a U.S. Defense Department official accused of setting up a unit of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants. But the Pentagon declined to confirm any of the allegations detailed in a

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Another promise of “change” miserably fails Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major government agencies has revealed that, despite Barack Obama’s promise to make government more transparent, more information is now being withheld from the public. The review finds that during Obama’s first year in office, a FOIA provision that allows the government to conceal details of its internal decision-making was invoked more frequently than during the outgoing year of the Bush administration. The provision to refuse the release of internal documents was cited some 70,779 times during the financial year of 2009, compared with just 47,395 times in 2008. “Obama specifically directed agencies to stop using that exemption so frequently, but that directive appears to have been widely ignored.” the AP report states. Indeed, according to the review, every one of the nine different exemptions under FOIA law was invoked more by Obama agencies in 2009 than by Bush departments the previous year. In total, federal agencies used exemptions to avoid releasing material at least 466,872 times in 2009, over 154,000 times more than the year before, despite the fact that there were some 48,000 less FOIA requests than in 2008. The 17 agencies reviewed were the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury and Veterans Affairs; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the Federal Reserve Board. The day after he was inaugurated, Obama announced that he had ordered government agencies to fully comply with the intended use of Freedom of Information Act law in order to ensure greater transparency and avoid charges of secrecy. “All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government,” Obama wrote in a memo to federal agencies on January 21, 2009. “The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA.” he added. &#

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Youtube March 16, 2010 On Monday, March 15, 2010, Congressman Ron Paul appeared on MSNBC’s “The ED Show” to discuss Senator Christopher Dodd’s financial regulatory reform bill.

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(FEDERALJACK) Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year. Casias is also a legal medical marijuana patient under Michigan state law. He uses marijuana with the recommendation of his doctor to relieve the effects of cancer. But Walmart, the world’s largest public corporation, has no sympathy for his condition or regard for Michigan’s state law. Last November, Walmart fired Casias because he tested positive for marijuana during a routine drug screening. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

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Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana

(FEDERALJACK) The brother of the White House chief of staff is engaged in a campaign to have a “three-strikes” law against illegal file-sharers passed in the United States. Modeled on a similar law enacted recently in France, a “three strikes” law would force Internet service providers to cut off Internet access to any users accused three times of downloading or sharing copyrighted material without permission. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

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And on Sunday, ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper asked US President Barack Obama’s top aide David Axelrod twice whether “Israel’s intransigence on the housing issue put the lives of US troops at risk.” “This is probably one of the most serious charges that we have ever heard,” Foxman said. “Israel is a country that has never asked American soldiers, even in its darkest moment, to risk its lives to defend it. From time to time there have been suggestions of security pacts, where the US would have to come to Israel’s aid, and all the leaders of Israel have said that the last thing they would want is for US soldiers to risk their lives to defend Israelis,” he said. WRH permalink

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Infowars.com | Alex covers the Boston WCVB TV report on fluoride and expands on the threat posed by this deadly neurotoxin.

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Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures. WRH permalink

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Final destination Iran?

Glenn Beck received a mix of mockery and intrigue last year after crying several times on camera during his Fox News program. Now, the conservative lightning rod’s assistants reportedly say he sheds the occasional tear even while rehearsing for the show. In a Post feature story about the controversial Fox host, Howard Kurtz writes, “Some staffers say they have watched rehearsals, on internal monitors, in which Beck has teared up or paused at the same moments as he later did during the show.” Observers have speculated that his crying may simply be an act to boost ratings. But according to the Chris Balfe, president of Beck’s production company Mercury Radio Arts, the fact that Beck does it both on and off camera is a mark of his sincerity. Read More Here.

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Glenn Beck ‘has teared up’ during rehearsals, staffers say